Farming and selling gold in RuneScape is helping Venezuelans survive their country's economic crisis ~games Article 3917 words, published May 27 2020 7 votes
The definitive history of Commander, Magic: The Gathering's most popular format ~games.tabletop card games Article 3008 words, published May 28 2020 5 votes
Spend some time down the rabbit hole of author-as-gameshow contestant, from Herman Wouk to John le Carré ~books Article 3776 words, published May 28 2020 3 votes
Making a SNES game in 2020 - The story of building Yo-Yo Shuriken, including designing and developing the game itself with modern tools and manufacturing a physical cartridge release ~comp Article 6187 words 4 votes
The injustice of this moment is not an 'aberration' ~misc politics Article 3803 words, published Jan 17 2020 8 votes
Martin Luther King's challenge to the nation's social scientists ~science sociology Article 4578 words 7 votes
What an economic liberal and conservative learned from their friendship ~life Article 2695 words 5 votes
Frames of consciousness - Can electrical impulses in the brain explain the stuff that dreams are made on? ~science Article 3786 words, published May 18 2020 4 votes
Wise thoughts: Summaries of classic philosophical works in words of one syllable ~humanities philosophy Article 5962 words 7 votes
Software bug in Bombardier airliner made planes turn the wrong way ~transport Article 3534 words 6 votes
"[R]iots do not develop out of thin air. [...] in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard." MLK, Jr., 1967 ~humanities.history Article 5844 words 9 votes
From homeless refugee to chess prodigy, nine-year-old dreams of becoming youngest Grandmaster ~games.tabletop Article 3539 words, published May 5 2020 6 votes
The Black American amputation epidemic ~health healthcare Article 7462 words, published May 19 2020 7 votes
The crisis within conservatism: Since the 80s, the right has increasingly relied on media bubbles, wedge issues, resistance to social change and making electoral participation harder to hold power ~misc politics Article 3231 words, published May 28 2019 7 votes
The new theatrics of remote therapy. How does treatment change when your patients are on a screen? ~health.mental Article 4857 words 3 votes
Ahmaud Arbery was lynched: He was killed in the street by White men. That’s how lynchings work ~life Article 3129 words 13 votes
During Michigan's COVID-19 response, anti-social distancing protests were promoted by a small set of activists linked to the 2012-era, anti-union so-called "right-to-work" movement ~misc politics Article 3007 words 8 votes
How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history ~humanities.history Article 3263 words 8 votes
The Kentucky miner who scammed Americans by claiming he was Hitler and plotting a ‘revolt’ with ‘spaceships’ ~humanities.history Article 4106 words 9 votes
When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery ~games Article 12 608 words 14 votes
We’re not polarized enough: Ezra Klein’s flawed diagnosis of the divisions in American politics ~books reviews Article 3854 words 5 votes
Making life cheap: Population control, herd immunity, and other anti-humanist fables ~enviro climate change Article 5691 words 6 votes
The president’s job is to manage risk. But Donald Trump is the risk: Donald Trump was a gamble. It’s not paying off. ~misc politics Article 3788 words 4 votes
Does “The Case Against Socialism” hold up? It does not. A brief look at Rand Paul’s new book ~books reviews Article 16 528 words 9 votes
How New York suffered nearly ten times the number of deaths as California ~health Article 11 354 words 6 votes
The GOP is the problem. Is ‘human identity politics’ the solution? (Book review of Ezra Klein’s 'Why We’re Polarized') ~books reviews Article 3814 words 9 votes
The coronavirus crisis has highlighted exploitative global trade regimes ~misc politics Article 3457 words 9 votes
The paranoid style in American politics: It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it (1964) ~misc politics Article 5880 words, published Nov 1 1964 5 votes
There & Back Again, a summary of Terraria: Journey's End ~games Article 11 121 words, published Apr 26 2020 11 votes
I was a teenage conspiracy theorist: Want to know why wild conspiracism can be so irresistible? Ask a fourteen-year-old girl ~life Article 3974 words 11 votes
The great 5G conspiracy - Part of a series on conspiracy thinking in America ~humanities Article 5662 words 6 votes
The confessions of Marcus "MalwareTech" Hutchins, the hacker who stopped WannaCry and was arrested by the FBI in 2017 ~tech internet security.cyber Article 13 662 words 33 votes
Elisabeth Bik quit her job to spot errors in research papers — and has become the public face of image sleuthing ~science biology.micro Article 3590 words 9 votes